About
MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw is a 268-bed full-service hospital serving Saginaw and surrounding communities. As a regional referral center, the medical center provides comprehensive medical, surgical, emergency and specialty care, including advanced treatment for serious and complex conditions.
The medical center is home to a Level II Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center and offers specialized care in structural heart disease, neuroscience, spine cancer, orthopedics and women's health. Patients also have access to advanced imaging, minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgery, laboratory services and rehabilitation on one campus.
If you are experiencing a life-threatening medical emergency, go to the nearest ER or call 911.
Health Care Close to Home
MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw provides comprehensive care for everyday health needs as well as advanced specialty care services for complex conditions. Primary and specialty care teams work together to help patients receive the dare they need close to home.
Services
MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw provides a full range of specialty services including:
- Bariatric Surgery
- Cancer Care
- Chemotherapy & Infusion Services
- Comprehensive Stroke Center
- Diabetes Services
- Emergency Care, Level II Trauma Center
- Gastroenterology & Hepatology
- Heart & Vascular Services
- Imaging Services
- Laboratory Services
- Neuroscience Services
- Orthopedic Care
- Pain Management
- Primary & Specialty Care
- Pulmonology
- Rehabilitation Services (physical & occupational therapy)
- Sleep Disorders
- Surgical Services
- Urology
- Wound Treatment
Advanced Technologies
MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw offers advanced technology and treatment options across multiple specialties.
Advanced Imaging
Cancer Care
Cardiovascular Technology
Robotic Surgery
Fast Facts
- Serving Saginaw and surrounding counties since 1874
- 268 reportable beds
- 1,900+ employees, volunteers, physicians and other personnel
- Introduced the region's first open-heart surgery, trauma and medical air programs
- Offered the first and only comprehensive stroke program in the region
- First hospital north of Flint to receive Comprehensive Stroke Center status in 2020; one of 16 hospitals in Michigan and fewer than 300 nationwide
- Serves as a regional referral center for advanced specialty care
- Home of Field Neurosciences Institute, supporting research and clinical trials
- Provides emergency air medical transportation through FlightCare, delivering advanced critical-care expertise since 1987
- Extends access to breast cancer screening through state-of-the-art mobile mammography unit featuring advanced 3D tomosynthesis technology, serving Birch Run, Chesaning, Frankenmuth, Saginaw, and Vassar
- Holds national recognition for clinical excellence, including The Joint Commission Advanced Certification in Total Hip and Knee Replacement (2025), Comprehensive Stroke Center reaccreditation (2025), and U.S. News & World Report's High Performing Hospital in Heart Failure (2024-2025)
- Level II Trauma Center
Awards & Recognition
- 2025 | The Joint Commission Advanced Certification in Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement
- 2025 | Comprehensive Stroke Center reaccreditation
- 2024-2025 | U.S. News & Work Report High Performing Hospital in Heart Failure
Milestones
- 2025 | Medical Center one of three state hospitals to earn Joint Commission's Advanced Certification in Advanced Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement
- 2024 | Ascension St. Mary’s joins MyMichigan Health and was renamed MyMichigan Medical Center Saginaw, Medical Center celebrates 150 years of serving the community
- 2023 | Ascension St. Mary’s Women’s Heart Clinic opens
- 2022 | New mobile mammography breast cancer screening center opens
- 2021 | New Emergency Care Center opens
- 2019 | Groundbreaking held for Emergency Care Center expansion
- 2018 | $1M Mako robot adds greater precision to orthopedic surgery Rebranded as Ascension St. Mary’s Hospital
- 2005 | Hospital rebranded as St. Mary’s of Michigan, with 23 locations throughout Michigan including Standish Hospital
- 1999 | The Daughters of Charity National Health System merges with the Sisters of Saint Joseph to form Ascension Health.
The Saginaw hospital is renamed to Saint Mary’s Towne Centre expands to include free-standing emergency department, pain clinic, endoscopy and ancillary services
- 1992 | The Towne Centre free-standing surgical center opens as first major health care delivery site in Saginaw Township
- 1987 | FlightCare medical emergency helicopter transfer service opens base at St. Mary’s
- 1984 | The region’s first open heart surgery occurs on Sept. 10, 1984
- 1975 | The St. Mary’s Burn Unit opens
- 1961 | A new facility opens following the demolition of the 1892 building
- 1928 | New building adds an emergency room, four operating rooms and a medical library, bringing total number of beds to 156
- 1875 | A new building begins on the site and the hospital incorporated as St. Mary’s. Its first patients were principally injured lumbermen. The staff devises a health insurance plan of $5 a year to raise funds. The hospital continues to expand
- 1874 | The facility opens on Aug. 22
- 1873 | Fr. Francis van der Bom, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in East Saginaw, requests Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul to open a hospital in Saginaw
